Reference

QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Reference (The Quicktime Developer Series)

Format: Paperback
Author: Tom Maremaa
ReleaseDate: August, 1999
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
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Java & Quicktime programming... no help from here.
That's the good news. If you want to learn how to program Quicktime using java, this is the only book on the market that I am aware of.

The BAD news is: this is a [stinky] book so don't buy this book using your own $$$. Like a previous reviewer says, half the book is just a listing of the Java Quicktime API 4. 0 which is by now outdated. Go to the Apple/Quicktime website & download the Quicktime Java SDK 6. 0 using the custom download, this will give you the entire kit plus the needed . dlls required to run Quicktime Java applic on the PC.

The 1st half of the book is mostly a direct copy of the "Summary of Quicktime for Java" published by Apple. The so called authors just lifted entire passage from the above publication. They've added virtually nothing to it.

All the critisms listed by previous reviewers are valid. Do not use your own $money to buy this book !

If you want to learn how to do video/audio streaming, I would recommend Windows Media Player due to their much better documentation/support.

Most of Quicktime's documentation are for the C language & have not been updated for Java. Learn how to program with Quicktime, you don't have a bloody chance . . . . at least not with Mr. Maremaa's book.

Useless
More then half of the book is QT Java API Reference just printed out. Absolutely useless. Thanx, I have a printer and I could do it myself, no need to buy the book.

All code samples are poorly explained. If you're not an experienced QuickTime C++ developer you don't have a chance.

Lacking....
The authors have most blindly left out one important element while writing this "reference" book - the reference indeces lack what most API reference books contain - descriptions. I do not recommend this book to those of you who are looking into developing any Quicktime application with Java. As whimsical as it is, the reference section lists the methods per package, but there is no documentation describing what they do, and NO analysis of what the arguments represent or expect ! I look at these signatures, and have absolutely NO CLUE how to implement them ! The rest of the book suffers more or less the same sorts of ailments, lack of information. The authors are so wrapped up their GUI descriptions, that the object model (which is so much adored by the creators and writers) is not documented near to completion. For my sake and yours, please turn your head (from this book) while shopping for Quicktime for Java reference books.